Value-Added Meat (that is, fresh meat items in the service meat case or overwrapped meat case that have at least one step of further preparation) has been growing steadily in recent years. These meat products grew a hearty eight percent in 2014 and are now a $4 billion category in the $48 billion total Fresh Meat market. And, Value-Added Meat is outpacing all other Fresh Meat growth (+5.6 percent in 2014) as well as Perishables and Food & Beverage. In fact, in 2014 Value-Added Meat represented an impressive 11% of total Fresh Meat growth.